To:A. I. POTYAEV

ComradePotyaev

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

      Printed from a typewritten copy.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Ihave been heaping curses on your head for your whining
and unbusiness-like attitude. Concerning Meisner, you
should have made a formal and written inquiry of
Bryukhanov and, given his disagreement, introduced (a copy of his
reply) in the C.L.D.

Thereis no point in dragging it out: this is what helps
to spread gossip to which you succumb. You must make
use of your rights and stop whimpering. I expect you to
let me have your official telephone message about Meisner
tomorrow.

Concerningthe Party request, table it officially in the
Orgbureau, as soon as possible. This has nothing to do
with me You can lodge an appeal in the Politbureau.I have not yet read the “plan”. Set out for me on two pages
the differences between N. M. Knipovich and
Meisner.[1]

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]N.M.Knipovich, an industrial research specialist, was of the        

opinion that V. I. Meisner, Head of the Central Administration        

of the Fishing Industry, was hampering the initiative of other        

establishments in scientific-industrial research, and that his        

Administration was conducting an incorrect policy on fisheries.       

Knipovich said all this in a letter to Lenin on August 6, 1921, on    

which Lenin made his remarks (seeLenin Miscellany XXIII,    

pp. 164–67).